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I think "how people are making choices" end up effecting the rank they have

Angry Monster·5/15/2016, 2:19:40 AM·2 votes·344 views

So I am starting to think their is a fundamental difference how people make choices in game and this is translating into rank standing. Here is what i am thinking is happening at each tier.

Bronze-instinctual, little conscious or planed thought, Mostly reactionary play. They saw so they went towards

Silver-Confused, they know there are options but never sure which one is right. May end up doing nothing cause they were afraid to do the wrong thing

Gold-Planers, They have an idea of how they want to play the game, but slow to adapt in game.

Plat-Proactive, They go looking for the play and create one.

Diamond+ - effortless, they no longer need to consciously think about the little things. Intuitive and subconscious understanding.

So i feel this is how people are generally approaching the game at different tiers. I came up with from playing with and talking to people at different levels. Obviously this is highly subjective POV.

Thoughts?

Edit So I am talking more about the lane phase or early/mid game play.

6 Comments

Sasogwa5/15/2016, 2:23:18 AM2 votes

You're not essentially wrong in your reasoning, ofc it varies from player to player and I know some that get to diamond by having insane mechanics but poor decision making, and others like me that are not really gifted mechanically but usually know what decisions to make and when they can or can't do something (such as : am i stronger than this guy in all ins just by looking at the items, which is simple but surprisingly some people don't)

Weathered5/15/2016, 2:34:50 AM2 votes

70% or higher of why I die in game (I main jungle in silver) is because I'm trying to appease to my team or am trying to cover their losses.

When I play a normal, where everyone is chill and doesn't end up going 1/5 within the first 7 minutes because they are trying to hard, often times I can decide for myself when to do things and not have people pinging me to go here or there. I almost never die, and end up doing really well because I have time to choose when to make plays happen and people can actually play for themselves.

But, in ranked, I'm constantly trying to gank that one lane that just fed their ass off to help them, or I'm going to dragon because bot lane is standing in front of it and getting mad that I'm not doing it with them, or I'm not taking opportunities that I know are a really good chance of a kill because my team keeps pinging me not to or had just shit talked me for dying.

This is partially my fault. I should just stay calm and keep playing to get ahead, ganking when I know its right rather than when the laner just pinged the help ping 5 times in a row. But dam is it a hella annoying when people make mistakes and then make me make mistakes because they want me to help them.

Sasogwa5/15/2016, 3:35:00 AM1 votes

After thinking a bit about it ;

What really indicates a high elo player imo is the way they snowball, the importance they attach to freezing a lane aka controlling the gold they get and also the potential gold their opponent can get. It's mostly working around ressources, gaining them as much as possible while depriving your opponent of it (zoning him out for instance) Typically a silver/gold player would maybe not see the interest of diving someone when you have a big wave of minions to have a tradekill. They'd be like, a tradekill? meh and diamonds would be like, ok this guy loses 3 waves, therefore I'm 1-2 levels and around 500 gold ahead it's super worth, even if it's a tradekill.

Overall it's very efficient snowball, and a single kill can completely turn the balance insanely in one's favour.